Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mates. It is a task that takes little time in execution, it is true, but being a unique and significant event in the educational molding of a man, it deserves and demands long hours of cerebration. For it is often the one time that any literary production of the author appears in print. It is the single monument of his pictorial career, and on this attempt he triumphs or fails. Indeed, rarely does a mother who has been disappointed in the sex of her first born experience such difficulties in naming her child as the chairman of groups applying...
Died. Algernon Sidney Crapsey, 80, author (The Last of the Heretics, an autobiography), lecturer, onetime Episcopalian clergyman, convicted of heresy in 1906 for denial of the doctrine of the virgin birth and the divinity of Jesus; in Rochester...
...last volume in the series of three called The Realists. The central figures in the series are again three: Ambrose Sheridan, titan and punching politician, who marries Auriol Otway who loves Max Hendry. In Due Reckoning, the Gordian knot of this situation is not sliced but neatly untied by Author McKenna. That he had the untying in mind when he first pulled the strings tight is sufficiently obvious; and Auriol's prayers for the one chance in a hundred that will release her from a marriage that was never more than a duty gladly borne are quite apparently going...
Britishers delight in reading about such supermen as Ambrose Sheridan; supermen who rise to journalistic and then political eminence, who marry beautiful and frail aristocrats, who carry a bee in their derby bonnets about resuscitating the human race or the working classes of England. Author McKenna writes about his superman less pompously than did H. G. Wells, less seriously than did John Galsworthy, less romantically than did Michael Arlen, more rapidly than did W. L. George. Youthful and prolific, Author McKenna knows his subject at first hand; through the War and until two years after Sonia, in 1917, brought...
Professor Taussig has for many years been closely in touch with the problem which is to be discussed. He is the author of a "Tariff History of the United States". "The Silver Situation in the United State", "Free Trade, the Tariff and Reciprocity" and several other works...